Window-shade fixture



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J. F. HIOKEY.

WINDOW SHADE FIXTURE.

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UNITED STATES arnnfr tries,

JOSEPH FRANCIS HIGKEY, OF MILFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

WINDOW-SHADE FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,535, dated January 25, 1887.

Application filed July 26, 1886.

I of Milford, in the county of \Vorcestery'of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in WVinlow-Shade Fixtures; and I do hereby declare 1e same to be described in the following specication and represented in the accompanying rawings, of which Figure l is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a longi- 'zdinal section, and Figs. 3 and 4 end views, a window-shade and its roller provided with 7 invention, the nature of which is defined the claim hereinafter presented.

Considerable exactness has heretofore been quired in properly adj listing a spring adero1ler to have it in its best working .ndition, as the upper part of a window-casing usually an inconvenient place for work to carried on. Brackets as generally in use -'e objectionable in consequence of the diffiilty experienced in placing them at the proper oints to receive the roller so that it will work reely' and securely.

The said adjustable shade-roller holder or anger supplies the' means of putting the shade ind roller into working condition before the atter is hung against the window. It enables he work to be done easily and correctly, and requires less time than any other means such as usually heretofore employed and known to me.

The adjustable slide-roller holder containing my improvement, and hereinafter described, for supporting the shade-roller and its shade in working condition has advantages over brackets, in the use of which the points of'support can only be at the extreme ends of the roller. Brackets, in this respect, often occasion great inconvenience in their application where the window-casingisofawidth less than the length of the shade-roller. My roller holder or hanger obviates this difficulty by having its support or supports from the window-casing at points above the roller, one of whose supports is adjustable relatively to the other. The method of adjusting the holder to a roller guarantees not only exactness in its position, but correctness in its operation, all of which I shall now proceed to describe.

In the drawings, A denotes awindow-shade,

Serial No. 209,080. (No model.)

and B the roller to which it is attached and about which it is wound by means of a spring or springs, s, and mechanism as usually employed within or belonging to this class of automatic window-shade rollers. One journal, a, of such roller is cylindrical, and the other, 6, is generally prismatic, or essentially so, and extends from the shaft or spindle t of the spring or springs s, for revolving the roller for winding the shade thereon.

- In carrying out my invention I have extending over and parallel with the rollera rod, 0, which near one end of it is bent downward at a right angle, as shown at c, and provided with a bearing, (Z, to receive the revoluble journal a of the roller. At its other end, and for some distance back therefrom, the rod is screwthreaded, as shown atf, and has screwed upon it a hook, D, in which the prismaticjournal b of the roller rests, such hook being shaped so as to receive the said journal and prevent it from revolving. There is also screwed upon the screw of the rod a thumb-nut, E, which serves when screwed up against the hook to prevent such hook from moving on the rod.

From the above it will be seen that the hook is adjustable on the rod lengthwise of the latter, and when once having been properly adjusted can be sustained in place by the thumbnut.

The rod having the downward extension and the pivotal bearing therein at one end, and the screw at its other end, and the hook and thumbnut screwed upon such screw, constitute what I term the shade-roller holder or hanger, which not only will answer for supporting a window-shade roller of the kind hereinbefore mentioned and represented, but one in which both journals are to revolve with the roller.

The holder is to be sustained within the window frame or casing by means of two hooks screwed into the upper part thereof and extending downward therefrom, they hooking upon the rod of the holder, from which it will be seen that the detachment of the holder from the window-frame or from the roller, or its application thereto, becomes an easy matter, as circumstances may require.

' I do not claim the combination of a Windowrepresented and claimed in either of the United ICO shade roller with a holder or hanger made as States Patents Nos. 268.265, or 306, 233, as my the other end the screw end of the hook and holder or hanger is different in construction, thumb-nut screwed upon such screw, as repit being in no respect composed of a tube, the resented, all being for application to a Windowmain part of it being simply a rod or single shade roller and to hooks depending from a 5 piece of wire. window-easing, as specified.

I e1aim- The window-shade holder or hanger essen- JOSEPH FRANCIS HIOKEY' tially as explained, consisting of the rod hav \Vitnesses: ing near one end the downward extension and GEORGE G. 000K,

10 the pivotal bearing therein, and at and near JESSE A. TAFT.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 356,535.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 356,535, granted January 25, 1887, upon the application of Joseph Francis Hickey, of Milford, Massachusetts, improvement in Window-Shade Fixtures, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction, as follows: In line 11, page 2, the Word end screw should read and; and that the Letters Patent after the Word should be read with this corof the casein the Patent Office. Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 15th day of February, A. D. 1887.

[SEAL] D. L. HAWKINS,

Acting Secretary of the Interior. Oountersigned: I R. B. VANCE,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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